Presentation given at NACAA and Epsilon Sigma Phi conferences.
How to find and add to your personal learning network - using Twitter as an example.
Presentation with notes is available at: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1W3ZphSEBGOIZMZWgK8LqlmZkPyaJa-kW9Z4Gm3kXnE8/edit
1. Creating Your Online Learning
Network
Anne Adrian eXtension-Auburn University
Twitter: @aafromaa
John Dorner, North Carolina State University
Twitter: @jdorner
ESP October 2012
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3. What Is a LN?
LNs are deliberately formed networks
of people and resources capable of
guiding our independent learning
goals and professional development
needs.
4. LN Resources
CONTENT CONVERSATIONS
Blogs Twitter
Facebook
Videos
Blog Comments
Slideshows
LinkedIn
Bookmarks
Google Plus
5. Using Twitter For Your LN
What Is Twitter?
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging
tool that allows users to share 140 character bursts of
information (tweets).
How are people using Twitter?
News source
Conversation
Conference tracker
Marketing tool
Knowledge network
Text Messaging
6. Identify people
Colleagues
Friends & Family
Authors
Bloggers
Speakers
Magazines
News Sites
15.
Next Steps
CREATE account if you don't have one
FIND your real life friends/colleagues
SEARCH for others with similar interests
FOLLOW others
SHARE what you discover and learn
http://www.extension.org/people/colleagues/socialnetwork
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16. Creating Your Online Learning
Network
Anne Adrian eXtension-Auburn University
Twitter: @aafromaa
aadrian@extension.org
http://www.extension.org/people/aadrian
John Dorner, North Carolina State University
Twitter: @jdorner
jdorner@ncsu.edu
http://www.extension.org/people/jdorner
John Identify people who can contribute to your LN Photo: https://picasaweb.google.com/101010136446296706332/NACAAAug7th?authkey=Gv1sRgCMCfnP2W8Jr5sgE#5646499021013268706 Permission granted from John Dorner, NACAA Electronic Communications Coordinator
John
John
Consider following the accounts that those you follow retweet
John Check the following/followers lists of those you follow
Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context to tweets. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag. Hashtags were developed as a means to create "groupings" on Twitter, without having to change the basic service.
Anne
Anne stress not just twitter - twitter was an example